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How Many US Heart Attacks Are Repeats?
About 1 in 4: AHA estimates 200,000 of 805,000 US heart attacks a year are repeat attacks, using 2005 to 2014 data.
Read the story →How Many People Experiencing US Homelessness Are in Families?
About 3 in 10: HUD counted 230,366 people in families with children among 745,652 people experiencing homelessness in the US on one January 2025 night.
Read the story →Who Exercises More, US Men or Women?
On an average day in 2025, 25.7 percent of US men and 21.1 percent of US women age 15 and older took part in sports, exercise or recreation, per BLS.
Read the story →Leukemia: The Race for a Cure
Mandi Schwartz, 22, and her teammates on the Yale women’s hockey team had just celebrated a win over Brown University in December 2008 when Schwartz, who was feeling unusually fatigued,…
Read the story →How Many College Students Misuse Prescription Stimulants?
In 2025, 3.1% of US full-time college students said they had used stimulant medications without a medical prescription in the past year, MTF found.
Read the story →A Kissing Expert on How People Kiss
In a 2015 study of 168 cultures, the romantic kiss on the lips was documented in 46% of them, a minority, and was more common in more complex societies.
Read the story →Are Your Politics in Your Genes?
A 2014 analysis of over 12,000 twin pairs from nine studies in five democracies found that genetic factors play a role in forming political ideology.
Read the story →Do Americans Keep Their New Year’s Resolutions?
In a December 2019 Marist Poll, 73% of Americans who made a New Year's resolution for 2019 said they kept it for at least part of the year.
Read the story →How Many US ER Visits Involve Tape?
By our estimate from CPSC's 2024 injury sample data, about 2,800 people went to US emergency rooms in 2024 with injuries involving adhesive tape.
Read the story →How Many People Speak Invented Languages?
Nobody has an exact count of Esperanto speakers; its main association says hundreds of thousands and possibly millions.
Read the story →Heat Kills More Americans Than Tornadoes or Floods
NWS 2015 to 2024 average deaths a year: heat 273, flood 114, tornado 48, lightning 20.
Read the story →License and Registration, Please: The Odds of Getting a Speeding Ticket
Nothing ruins a trip like the sight of a police car about to pull you over. One minute you’re blissfully cruising along, and the next you’re miserably watching other cars…
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